Species sheet · The Edible Ocean
Giant trevally
It has a score to settle with someone, unclear who.
- Grilled whole over coals
- In a Reunion-style curry
- Raw, marinated in lime
- In French
- Carangue geante
- Scientific name
- Caranx ignobilis
- In the water
- Indo-Pacific reefs and lagoons, from the shore down to 190 metres, hunting at dusk.
- Season & buying
- Year-round in the tropics.
- Common length
- ~100 cm
- How to identify it
- Steep bulging forehead, almost vertical profile
Row of hard scutes before the tail
Slate grey above, silver below
On the plate
White, firm flesh with a clean flavour, best on medium-sized fish.
Avoid: Very large lagoon specimens, which can carry ciguatera.
Old males darken almost to black with age, so much that you can tell them from the silver females at a distance.
In Umay recipes
One Umay recipe calls for it.
